MOLIERE. Les OEuvres de Molière avec Notes et Variantes by A - Lot 227

MOLIERE. Les OEuvres de Molière avec Notes et Variantes by Alphonse Pauly. Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1872. 8 volumes in 8 vols. in-12, red morocco half-chagrin with corners, spine-ribs underlined by a gilt stippled fillet, caissons decorated with gilt irons and interlacing, top edge gilt. (4 f.)+XV+322+(2 f.), 307+(2 f.), 387+(2 f.), 328+(2 f.), 426+(2 f.), 322+(2 f.), 392+(2 f.) and 347+(2 f.) pages. Cuts and covers slightly rubbed. Very attractive set illustrated with 36 etchings after engravings by François Boucher (1703-1770), and a double portrait-frontispiece of Molière. In addition to Molière's classic theatrical works, two fragments of plays never published during the author's lifetime (La Jalousie du Barbouillé and Le Médecin Volant) and various poems complete the collection. Each volume contains a few pages of "notes and variants" by Alphonse Pauly (1830-1809, bibliographer). A handsome, complete set in its elegant, homogeneous binding.